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Atlantic Yards Over the Years: aVisual History
Images assembled by Norman Oder,Atlantic Yards Report
AtlanticYardsReport.com
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12/03 site plan, Forest City Ratner
Firstsiteplan,Dec.
03, byForestCity
Ratner
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Official Site Plan, Empire StateDevelopment Corporation, 2006
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Develop Dont Destroy Bklyn Map
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ores y a ner resen a on oCity Council, 2005 (note distance of
Prospect Heights from site)
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FCR slide of 1980s, real blight
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FCRs two malls, new housing
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Atlantic Terminal Urban RenewalArea (ATURA), from 1960s
ATURA in red, AY site blue; eminentdomain battle over properties inblue blocks (not blue/red)
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December 2003 arena rendering
By Frank Gehry
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December 2003 skyline rendering
By Frank Gehry, Williamsburgh Savings Bank at right (east)
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Brooklyn Paper,January 2004
Indy weeklywas sold toRubertMurdochsCNG in2009
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Forest City Ratner Brochure mailedto Brooklynites, May 2004
The quote isfrom HerbertMuschamp,
NYTimesarchitecturecritic
The buildings
would not bethree stories
D l D t D t B kl
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Develop Dont Destroy Brooklyn(DDDB) poster, August 2004
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Summer 2005
Publicationby Forest CityRatner
After secondissue in fall2005, it was
canceled
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July 2005, New Gehry renderingsfrom above
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DDDB addendum, July 2005
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Atlantic Yardsbrochure, May 2006
Where are thetowers? (Smudgybuildings in red, asseen from a satellite)
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Fish-eye lens misleadingly suggestswhole site is a railyard
Brooklyn Views
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Brooklyn Viewsblog (via DDDB),May 2006
Views of FifthAvenue lookingnorth at MissBrooklyn(currently theoffice tower is
on hold)
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Municipal Art Society, June 2006
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July 2006: new Gehry renderings
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July 2006
Flagshiptower=Miss
Brooklyn Gehry calls it
my ego trip
Dean
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DeanStreetscale, 7/06,
ByJonathanBarkey
Lookingnorthwesttoward
DowntownBrooklyn
G h i t B k h t f ESDC
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Dean Street,
11/06
Gehry incorporates Barkeys photo for ESDC
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Possible signage, November 2006
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AtlanticYardsPhotoBook.com
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Photos by Tracy Collins
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Block and Lot Map
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Forest City Ratner Property Map,May 2005
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Forest City Ratner Property Map,August 2008, overstates control
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ESDC Property Map, July 2009,corrects the record
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ESDC 2006 map of properties withone or more blight characteristics
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What if a working railyard doesntactually constitute blight?
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Completion Dates for ProjectBuildings as Estimated in 2006
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Poster byDDDB
Sept. 2006
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January 2007
Barclays buysarena namingrights for areported $400
million. In 2009,we learn that washalved.
First rendering ofproject scale from
street level toappear in anewspaper. It camein an advertisment.
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May 2008: final Gehry designs; noPhase 2 portrayed, nor Site 5 tower
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May 2008, Municipal Art Societyalternative vision: Atlantic Lots
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UNITY Plan,Sept. 2008
Limited torailyard andblocks abovePacific Street.Superblocksgone, newstreets
added.
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June 2009, Ellerbe Becket arena
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Sept. 2009, new skin by SHoP;note vaportecture towers
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Arena image enhanced with traffic
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Will Rooftop Advertising be OK?
Design guidelines say no
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Prospect Heights Historic District,designated in June 2009
SE blockin red:parking lotfor 1000+cars
Wouldprojectremoveblight orcreate it?
Map byTracyCollins